[ILUG] UserA <--> UserB Interaction

[Conor Daly]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 12:59:00PM +0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Frank Murphy thought:
> 
> On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 11:57 +0000, Gavin Beatty wrote:
> 
> > I found Xnest to be very slow, YMMV. If nesting is preferable to you
> > (so you can run an actual desktop as UserB), I'd recommend Xephyr.
> > 
> > Launch it with:
> > $ Xephyr :1 -extension GLX &
> > Login to UserB
> > $ su - UserB
> 
> Tried it a number of ways, 
> $ Xephyr :1 -extension GLX &
> Xephyr -query localhost -screen 1024x768 :1

I just <CTRL><ALT><F6> to get a console, log in there and do: 

startx -- :1 

to start a new X session on the next display.  Then I switch between them
with <CTRL><ALT><F7> and <CTRL><ALT><F8>

Conor
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